I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
My name is Dominik and I'm part of the team here at Twilio. If you have any questions around Twilio or the hackathon let me know. We love this community and the creativity you all bring. We are super excited to see all the amazing things you'll build and are here to help you all 💖
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
Hey :) one of you should do the submission (if you are hosting the project on GitHub on a personal account I'd recommend that person does it). In the submission post make sure to mention your team mates :)
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
Hey :) you submit here on dev.to. If you check the original announcement post you'll see a link to a post template where you can describe your submission. Also make sure that you additionally fill out the form here: ahoy.twilio.com/code-exchange-comm....
You'll have to do both to be eligible.
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
You can find a top-level overview of all of our products at twilio.com/products. Since Twilio has so many different APIs by now, it's the best place to get started to get a birdseye view. After that I'd suggest for you to go to twilio.com/docs and check out the docs for your respective product to see the options of what you can do with the API. I hope that helps
You can enter the promo code when you upgrade your account. You'll have to add a credit card or PayPal but as long as you don't check the "Auto Top-Up" checkbox, we won't charge you if you use a promo code. You can find more detailed instructions at twil.io/apply-promo.
Happy hacking and we can't wait to see what you build!
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
Yes you can work in teams but there will be only one prize per team not per member. So yes you can code together but one person should submit it. Feel free to mention that you worked with multiple people on it though so we can celebrate you all!
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
What are the expectations for the project? Does it have to be complex and fully polished or can it just be an idea with simply implemented? (I say this because I'm a relatively new developer)
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
You should definitely give it a try and do as much as you can :) While we will look at the implementation in terms of judging, you'd still qualify for at least the participation reward :) If you want to explore some of the Twilio APIs first, you can check out TwilioQuest as well
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
Hi Paolo! That would typically require integrating with one of the big medicine tech providers and they are often not for free. I'd focus on making sure that there's some authentication method and pointing out that if this would be used in production people should swap that out with a different authentication method that is suitable for their field.
thank you for the reply, so for the meaning i can just proceed and consider that the 'doctor' is verified ? for this hackathon? sorry had so many question as this hinders me from proceeding.
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I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
Unfortunately it's not possible to modify the message for SMS. You can modify it for Email though. You can find the docs on how to use Verify with Email here: twilio.com/docs/verify/email
It's not right to allow commercialization and selling of people's submissions in your license. You have to stop this. Please remove this language from your rules. Exploiting entries for profit is a bad look in any case, but especially given current circumstances.
LICENSE. You grant to Twilio and their affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, fully paid up, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to (1) hyperlink to your website and software from Twilio’s websites, or websites from Twilio’s agents, affiliates, or assigns; (2) use and display your name, professional and personal information, photo, likeness, and your trademarks related to your software for any purpose related to this Competition ; (3) copy, distribute, sell, compile, revise, commercialize and otherwise use any Submission transmitted to Twilio, linked to, or listed on any registration form.
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
Thanks for raising your concern, @imgntn
! Twilio definitely has no intention to sell or commercialize your submissions. We will work with our legal counsel to revise the terms.
Thank you - I know a lot of this is boilerplate but I think you'll get more/better entries if people are comfortable that their work won't be commercialized or sold. Best.
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
Totally get it. We updated our terms for the hackathon and dropped the sell and commercialize from (3). You can find the updated terms here: twilio.com/legal/twilio-dev-hackat...
Way to respond quickly and kindly to helpful feedback! I love the mindset of almost everyone I've run across on this site, and appreciate you following suit despite the corporate presence! 🙏
If so, I wasn’t bashing all corporations. I understand their helpfulness, certainly.
However, my personal belief is that the idea that this mindset you’ve described is needed for continued growth is aging quickly. I’m working on developing new economic ideas behind user centric DAOs, for lack of a better term. That’s all I’ll say on that point.
To clarify my comment: again I understand the usefulness of corporations. However, it’s getting more and more obvious in techland where corporations interests and biases and influences lay. As a member of tech land, I find this obnoxious if not outright abusive (of monopoly, for example).
The above concession with the removal of the abuse of power is refreshing.
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
Twilio has no intention to sell or commercialize your submissions. We updated our terms for the hackathon and dropped the sell and commercialize from (3). You can find the updated terms here: twilio.com/legal/twilio-dev-hackat...
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I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
Dominik Kundel I'd like to submit my projects with a copy-left license (preferably GNU GPLv3) this ensures that my projects or any of it's forks never get Closed-source.
Telling candidates to stick only with a Permissive Licenses is the same as rule (3), these licenses already make the project available to copy, distribute, sell, compile, revise and commercialize by any other person in the world.
I'm a developer, product manager and public speaker based in the SF Bay Area. I'm passionate for JavaScript, the web, hackathons, teaching, photography & cocktails.
I absolutely understand your concern. Our goal with Twilio CodeExchange is to enable as many developers with code as possible and allow the community to showcase their projects. Ultimately it is your call under what license you license your code but since this hackathon is celebrating the opening of community submissions for CodeExchange, we decided to limit it to permissive licenses only since that is the limitation for CodeExchange and every entry might be added there.
Again Twilio does not have any intention in selling your work and I know it's not necessarily blocking others from a licensing perspective. Ultimately it's your call what license you put your work under.
We'll make sure to revisit the policy for the next hackathon we run.
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My name is Dominik and I'm part of the team here at Twilio. If you have any questions around Twilio or the hackathon let me know. We love this community and the creativity you all bring. We are super excited to see all the amazing things you'll build and are here to help you all 💖
Hi Dominik
My friends and I are keen on entering. We are a group of 4. How do we go about submitting a team entry for the hackathon?
Hey :) one of you should do the submission (if you are hosting the project on GitHub on a personal account I'd recommend that person does it). In the submission post make sure to mention your team mates :)
If i didn't use api or i did something related to COVID-19 precautions related animation kind of website that is applicable in this hackathon
Since this is a Twilio hackathon you should use at least one Twilio API. Also your project has to be built during the duration of the hackathon
ok thank you!
Hello Dominik, have a nice day.
What is the URL for submit my project?
Hey :) you submit here on dev.to. If you check the original announcement post you'll see a link to a post template where you can describe your submission. Also make sure that you additionally fill out the form here: ahoy.twilio.com/code-exchange-comm....
You'll have to do both to be eligible.
Thank you Dominik Kundel
Hey Dominik :)
Yes, 2 questions:
Hi Michael!
You can find a top-level overview of all of our products at twilio.com/products. Since Twilio has so many different APIs by now, it's the best place to get started to get a birdseye view. After that I'd suggest for you to go to twilio.com/docs and check out the docs for your respective product to see the options of what you can do with the API. I hope that helps
You can enter the promo code when you upgrade your account. You'll have to add a credit card or PayPal but as long as you don't check the "Auto Top-Up" checkbox, we won't charge you if you use a promo code. You can find more detailed instructions at twil.io/apply-promo.
Happy hacking and we can't wait to see what you build!
Thank you very much :)
Hello,
Are teams eligible? If not, would it be possible to choose one person to enter our project and collect prizes for us?
Yes you can work in teams but there will be only one prize per team not per member. So yes you can code together but one person should submit it. Feel free to mention that you worked with multiple people on it though so we can celebrate you all!
twil.io/terms-dev-hackathon
Hello,
Does Twilio have a cron/schedule API?
Is that new CRM solution from Twilio available to use for free? Or would I have to pay for that?
Hi Bernard,
We currently do not have a cron/scheduling API. Personally I use another service to trigger my webhooks to handle that.
What service do you use?
I personally either use Zapier or Azure Functions
Great 🤸 I got set up with Zapier 🚀
Hi Dominik,
What are the expectations for the project? Does it have to be complex and fully polished or can it just be an idea with simply implemented? (I say this because I'm a relatively new developer)
Hi Waleed!
You should definitely give it a try and do as much as you can :) While we will look at the implementation in terms of judging, you'd still qualify for at least the participation reward :) If you want to explore some of the Twilio APIs first, you can check out TwilioQuest as well
Hey, i don't have credit card or PayPal account. So, can i just make the project with the free trial account without using the promo code ?
Yes you can absolutely start with a trial account :) If you hit any roadblocks please let me know.
Hey Dominik! Am I allowed to create more than 1 project?
Thanks
Yes you can create more than one project but you'll only be eligible to winning one prize. Happy hacking!
Hi @dkundel . can you give a thought on how to verify a medical practitioner ? does this kind of security is required for the hackathon? thank you.
Hi Paolo! That would typically require integrating with one of the big medicine tech providers and they are often not for free. I'd focus on making sure that there's some authentication method and pointing out that if this would be used in production people should swap that out with a different authentication method that is suitable for their field.
thank you for the reply, so for the meaning i can just proceed and consider that the 'doctor' is verified ? for this hackathon? sorry had so many question as this hinders me from proceeding.
Yes I think that's a fair assumption 😊
In the UK doctors have a GMC code. Which can verified on a website gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licens...
Every country will have one.
Thanks to you and guys at twilio for organising the hackaton.
Hey Dominik, does Twilio Verify allow users to change the message template? The documentation doesn't seem to indicate so, but I wanted to confirm.
Hi Nikhil,
Unfortunately it's not possible to modify the message for SMS. You can modify it for Email though. You can find the docs on how to use Verify with Email here: twilio.com/docs/verify/email
Gotcha. Thanks for the response, Dominik.
Hi Dominik! Is it okay to ask about the grand prize "$1,500 USD gift card or equivalent "?
What kind of gift card is that? Where can we use it? Thank you.
It's not right to allow commercialization and selling of people's submissions in your license. You have to stop this. Please remove this language from your rules. Exploiting entries for profit is a bad look in any case, but especially given current circumstances.
Thanks for raising your concern, @imgntn ! Twilio definitely has no intention to sell or commercialize your submissions. We will work with our legal counsel to revise the terms.
Thank you - I know a lot of this is boilerplate but I think you'll get more/better entries if people are comfortable that their work won't be commercialized or sold. Best.
Totally get it. We updated our terms for the hackathon and dropped the sell and commercialize from (3). You can find the updated terms here: twilio.com/legal/twilio-dev-hackat...
Way to respond quickly and kindly to helpful feedback! I love the mindset of almost everyone I've run across on this site, and appreciate you following suit despite the corporate presence! 🙏
Try to understand that without the funding from a corporation of some kind neither this Hackathon nor the internet, or IETF would exist.
If I don't have an alphanumeric to stand on please enlighten me. Happy to discuss this you.
Take a look at this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_S... it might help you understand more about how things got started.
Hey Bernard, was this a response to me?
If so, I wasn’t bashing all corporations. I understand their helpfulness, certainly.
However, my personal belief is that the idea that this mindset you’ve described is needed for continued growth is aging quickly. I’m working on developing new economic ideas behind user centric DAOs, for lack of a better term. That’s all I’ll say on that point.
To clarify my comment: again I understand the usefulness of corporations. However, it’s getting more and more obvious in techland where corporations interests and biases and influences lay. As a member of tech land, I find this obnoxious if not outright abusive (of monopoly, for example).
The above concession with the removal of the abuse of power is refreshing.
Does that help clarify my point?
Yes it was. More information about your economic ideas please.
Please explain the interests, biases and influence.
When you say "above concession", are you referring to the legal clause?
Wow. I think you have a complicated task on your hands. But I'll leave you with these questions? How will you fund it? Keep the lights on?
I have to get back to work now. Bye!
I think you should pursue this idea.
Thank you so much for pointing this out.
Have a blessed day.
Twilio has no intention to sell or commercialize your submissions. We updated our terms for the hackathon and dropped the sell and commercialize from (3). You can find the updated terms here: twilio.com/legal/twilio-dev-hackat...
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Sorry for that glitch. It's back :)
Should be working now!!
Dominik Kundel I'd like to submit my projects with a copy-left license (preferably GNU GPLv3) this ensures that my projects or any of it's forks never get Closed-source.
Telling candidates to stick only with a Permissive Licenses is the same as rule (3), these licenses already make the project available to copy, distribute, sell, compile, revise and commercialize by any other person in the world.
Hi Rohit,
I absolutely understand your concern. Our goal with Twilio CodeExchange is to enable as many developers with code as possible and allow the community to showcase their projects. Ultimately it is your call under what license you license your code but since this hackathon is celebrating the opening of community submissions for CodeExchange, we decided to limit it to permissive licenses only since that is the limitation for CodeExchange and every entry might be added there.
Again Twilio does not have any intention in selling your work and I know it's not necessarily blocking others from a licensing perspective. Ultimately it's your call what license you put your work under.
We'll make sure to revisit the policy for the next hackathon we run.